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N.18 / V.49 Political Scandals and You — Page 07 Make The Univeristy Great Again — Page 16 Random Audit: Religion, Superstition & Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe — Page 22

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Double Standards Becoming the Standard

NEXUS ISSUE 18 14TH - 18TH AUGUST 2017 CO-EDITORS Bronwyn Laundry Lyam Buchanan editor@nexusmag.co.nz

MANAGING EDITOR James Raffan james@nexusmag.co.nz

Scandal Nexus Talks to Political Youth, Part One Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive andâ€¦. Dodge The Chosen Lunn TL;LR News in Numbers The Diminutive Post Top Ten

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Artwork by Dominique Marriott

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DESIGN Vincent Owen design@nexusmag.co.nz

DEPUTY EDITOR Jennie-Louise Kendrick jen@nexusmag.co.nz

23 FULL EXPOSURE 25 STUDENT EXPERIENCE Interview with Kylie Price

REVIEWS EDITOR Alexander Nebesky reviews@nexusmag.co.nz

CONTRIBUTORS John Robson Dominique Marriott Kate Lunn

10 SPORTS 13 ENTERTAINMENT Killing the Competition

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Puppet Master Politics Interview with Dominique Marriott FOMO

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Pass the AUX Opinionated The Fashion Critic Lonely Tarts Club Yam & Troy the Science Boys Auteur House

Cameron McRobie Tom Collopy Laura Hetherington Ben Hansen David Simes Conor Maxwell Andrew James Lauren Kerr-Bell Jacqui Swney Jean Balchin Troy Anderson Amanda van der Klompf Richard Swainson

OFFICES Ground Floor SUB, Gate One University of Waikato Knighton Road Hillcrest Hamilton 3216

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Make the University Great Again

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Double Standards Becoming the Standard? Disclaimer: This editorial does not represent Lyam’s view. If you’ve ever read Puppet Master Politics you’ll know Lyam chooses to distance himself from the shitshow that is elections. This editorial comes straight from Bron’s bleeding heart. It’s not often that I agree with Winston Peters. However, when I read that Mike Hosking, verified lizard person and blatantly right-leaning ‘journalist’ would be hosting TVNZ’s election debates, Winnie’s words “wholly unsuitable” and “just outrageous”, were more eloquent than my scream of frustration. I will accept that I was born and bred a little too liberal, but something isn’t right when a man who openly defends Bill English and trashes Metiria Turei on national TV and radio is given the right to control what is meant to be a fair debate that informs the public. Sadly, I think this is just one small case of the increasing double standards and bias in political media. Comparisons are being made between Metiria Turei’s transgressions and those of Bill English and John Key. The Herald were quick to point out in a list of facts that English claiming $24,000 in accommodation allowance for a house he did not live at was not illegal, and neither was Key enrolling to vote in the Helensville electorate

where he did not live. This contrasts Turei’s sins, which are, but were committed in the 90s. Turei was vilified for her indiscretions, despite coming forward and owning her past mistakes and using them as a tool to highlight the huge issue of poverty in New Zealand. And although this does not excuse her, I will add that they occurred 24 years ago when she was not a public figure, but instead, a struggling single mother in her twenties. I will also add that I know at least eight people who have lied to StudyLink just to survive as students. I think this is where the comparisons between Key, English and Turei are valuable. English and Key both committed their transgressions knowingly, with legal advice, as political figures. They were able to weather the storm and effectively manage the publicity surrounding it. Good on them. Turei, was not, and while I will admit it was poor timing on the Greens behalf, I think the witch-hunt that occurred is indicative of a flawed and ingrained system that shows a lack of empathy and an affinity for those who are able to manipulate the system without directly breaking the rules. Time for the tinfoil hats, my dudes. ♦

— Bron

Uni News — Pitopito Korero

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U N I N E W S Keen to Earn Some Money? The University’s Waikato Experimental Economics Lab (WEEL) are always looking for people to take part in behavioural research. You can earn $18-20 an hour, depending on results. Register online to participate in specific experiment sessions – you can always say no if the timing doesn’t suit. For more information, and to register as a potential participant, go to www.management.ac.nz/weel

December Graduation Have you recently completed your studies? Or do you anticipate completion before the 20 November? If so, you can now apply to graduate. Go to the common tasks tab in iWaikato and select apply to graduate. The deadline for applications to graduate if you wish to attend the December ceremony is 11 October. Apply now so you don't miss out.

Universities New Zealand Scholarships Come along on Thursday, 17 August for a presentation about the wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships administered by Te Pōkai Tara – Universities New Zealand (UNZ). The presentation will provide an overview of UNZ scholarships, followed by information about the support available for UoW applicants for these scholarships. All welcome on Thursday, 17 August, 1-2pm in S.1.02, Hamilton Campus. For more information, get in touch with our Scholarships team at scholarships@waikato.ac.nz

Student Job Ready Day Student Job-Ready Day is a half-day programme designed to prepare current University of Waikato students and recent graduates for work during and after your studies. Come along on Tuesday 22 August, 9am-3pm in S.1.04, Hamilton campus. For more information or to register, visit waikato. ac.nz/students/careers

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News — Pitopito Korero

Scandal Gossip Girl In the lead up to the Election, a number of parties have weathered the storm of scandal. Labour leader Andrew Little made a shocking resignation announcement and was replaced by Jacinda Ardern; Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei made admissions of benefit and electoral fraud, resigning to protect her party; and allegations of unlawful recordings of private conversations and inappropriate texts have surfaced against National MP Todd Barclay. In an attempt to set the record straight, we spoke to three local politicians to hear their thoughts on their respective party’s latest scandal. In hindsight, we should have known better. Hamilton East Labour candidate, Jamie Strange, took the wholesome approach, praising Little for his efforts over the years, “I would sincerely like to thank Andrew Little for the great work he has done leading our Party over the past two years. He has provided stability, and is one of the most genuine, honest, hard-working people I have ever met,” Strange said. He continued by singing (possibly to the tune of a Christian rock song) the praises of Ardern, “Congratulations to Jacinda Ardern on becoming Labour’s new leader. Jacinda is a local: she was born in Hamilton and grew up in Morrinsville. She is an excellent communicator, and has a heart for people. I am looking forward to the next six weeks, as Jacinda, myself, and our Labour team chat with people about Labour’s key messages: health, housing, education and the environment.” On the Todd Barclay recording scandal, National MP David Bennett was unable to comment, “I’ve 04

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got no comment to make on the Todd Barclay thing but what you’re seeing is a lot of topsy-turvy things happening across the board because there is naturally a lot of pressure on everyone with a few weeks out to the election.” Hamilton East Greens candidate Sam Taylor pledged her support for Metiria Turei, “It saddens me that the courage Metiria had shown in sharing her experiences of living on the poverty line was met with sanctimonious vindication and a series of personal and political consequences that are disproportionate when compared to other politicians transgressions,” she said. “I always thought the obvious answer to the dilemma of stealing bread to feed your family was that there is a much bigger injustice occurring if people were so hungry they were forced to steal and that we should not just look at their individual actions but also their context. Evidently, some influential sections of New Zealand think a punitive response and black and white thinking is called for, in doing so they have ignored the classist, racist and sexist components of the inconsistency in holding Metiria to account in this way and not others; but many more people have understood that poverty is wrong and that we need to mend the safety net.” Taylor finished by reaffirming her pride in Turei and commitment to her Party’s cause, “The good thing that’s come from this is that the inspiration many of us found in Metiria’s story and the horror we felt in watching her suffer for challenging the status quo has only strengthened our resolve. We will win this.” ♦

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↑ D AV I D B E N N E T T

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Nexus Talks to Political Youth, Part One Bronwyn Laundry This week we decided to give the youth wings a chance to share their comments, so we asked them for comments on their party’s scandal de jour, their worries about the opposition and their election night hopes and predictions. This is part one of two.

Greens on Campus How have Metiria’s confessions and resignation affected you? We’re a pretty close bunch here at GOC, and decided very early on to support Metiria’s admission of benefit fraud as a young solo mother. Metiria’s speech has finally begun the discussion on how we treat our most marginalised citizens, the level of poverty we face, and how we dehumanise those in need. After 15 years of advocacy, the discussion about poverty is now a national one. Metiria shone a light into the darkness poverty brings to so many people, and thousands of individuals now see that light. We’re heartbroken we’ve lost Metiria as co-leader, but we’re hopeful, as she’s left NZ with a discussion that’s been needed for decades. Metiria’s story gave people hope – the hope that we would have a representative who had walked in our shoes. We owe it to Metiria to keep this conversation alive. What worries you about the opposition? Lack of action on climate change and inequality. Further entrenchment of poverty in NZ and inadequate funding for basic social services, such as mental health services, due to poor management and short-sightedness. What are your election night hopes? Enough votes to get us 20 MPs into parliament. Our top 20 is a strong list full of amazing talent who are ready to lead the way to a more compassionate country which looks after both our people and our environment.

Young New Zealand First Do you think your party leader’s ‘Kingmaker’ status is affecting Young NZ First? Young NZ First was created to engage with young New Zealanders and to put issues faced by our youth at the forefront of our Party’s decision-

making. The “kingmaker status” is merely a media narrative meant to dramatize the election campaign and boost their ratings, our youth wing is more concerned about the crippling student debt and number of youths not employed, in education or in training (NEETs) that beleaguer young New Zealanders. What worries you about the opposition? Our biggest concern with the opposing parties is that they rely on identity politics and virtuesignalling rather than enacting genuine policy to target the problems facing our young people today. New Zealand First believes that the best method to help our young people is through policy, that is why we have an Up Front Investment tertiary education policy by our MP Tracey Martin which aims to turn students’ cash-debt into a skill debt - thus freeing them from debt bondage. While other parties want to appeal to the youths by having young people as candidates, or posting memes on social media or coming up with silly meal ideas like spaghetti pizza, New Zealand First actually empathize with the plight of the youth and want to actually help them. What are your election night hopes? New Zealand First have never been bothered by polling numbers, not only do the public polls unfairly underestimate our support they also do not represent an accurate picture of the sentiments of New Zealanders. So if you’re asking for us to predict a party vote number to garner on the night, we do not have an answer for you. Our desire for election night is to have sent out our message to the nation clearly, that we intend to put them first in all aspects of our decisionmaking. New Zealanders have seemed to lose hope in their government, merely accepting the status quo and being contented with it. Our Party says that our people deserve better, it is a travesty to have so many people homeless, it is a disgrace to see us shoot up in the OECD rankings of the highest suicide rates and it is simply wrong to be selling off our nation to foreign corporations - thus making our future generations subservient to foreign control. New Zealand First’s message is simple, to regain control of our country for our people and to put their interests FIRST. ♦

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News — Pitopito Korero

Dodge, Dip, Duck, Dive and... Dodge Jennie-Louise Kendrick It’s the time of the year again! The Inter-Faculty tournament will be held this week at UniRec. The sport of choice? Dodgeball! It is the first time that dodgeball has been the chosen sport for University of Waikato Faculties to battle it out for ultimate glory. It’s free to enter with food available and prizes up for grabs, including the Inter-Faculty Shield. Last year, the Faculty of Education took out the Shield when they smashed all their opponents in Ultimate Frisbee. The question on everyone’s lips is whether the reigning champs will be able to pull this win out of the bag again. The WSU Directors have formed a team, under the moniker The Flaming Dodgers, and Vice-President Nicola Smith said that it’s looking to be one of the best days of the year. “Even if you don’t claim the shield, time for poor students to get some free food? Entry is free, so even if you don’t win you can say you just did it for banter,” Smith said. The Flaming Dodgers will be going BANANAS in WSU yellow and an alleged banana costume. “From attack to defence, we have some amazing directors like ‘Kim Jg Kill’, ‘Hot Mama’, myself ‘Quick Nic’ and ‘The Hulk’. “Yes, one in our team has a GREEN cast for a broken knuckle but I can assure you, Robbie will be hulk-smashing the other teams”. Smith was quick to add that the team has been in intensive training with legendary coach and captain William ‘Will-win’ Lewis, and that even though they’re not ~supposed~ to win, they probably will. 06

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Rumour has it that there may be a dark horse contender looking to blitz the competition from the Faculty of Engineering, but this remains to be seen on game day. The tournament will be structured as a round robin competition, with two courts set up for double the game play. Each game will be fifteen minutes or until one side wins by eliminating the six players of the other team. Of the nine faculties on campus, eight will be competing with the Faculty of Health, Sport and Human Performance joining forces with Education. The tournament will be held in UniRec on Wednesday 16 August, from 10am to 3pm. If you would like to register a team, get in touch with your faculty ASAP. ♦

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The Chosen Lunn Interview by Kate Lunn I F Y O U H AV E A N Y FEEDBACK ON THE STUDENT R E P R E S E N TAT I O N S Y S T E M OR IDEAS ON HOW IT C O U L D B E I M P R O V E D, D R O P K AT E A L I N E AT

She’s a former Vice-President, a part-time Nexus writer, and now she’s the WSU’s Student Voice Coordinator. Kate Lunn (yep, she’s still at university) sat down with Kate Lunn to talk about shaking up the class rep system and make sure VC Quiggles hears your pleas for more Panopto and the death of Moodle.

VO I C E @ WS U.O RG . N Z

Talk us through your role as Student Voice Coordinator; why has the WSU brought you on? The Student Voice Project is the WSU’s latest initiative to improve student representation on campus. The WSU knows that students aren’t happy with everything on campus, whether it be the content taught in classes or recent changes to the curriculum. What we also know is that this feedback isn’t always getting back to the university staff who make the decisions. Waikato students deserve a better educational experience, and I’m on board as Student Voice Coordinator to facilitate this. Over the next few months, I’ll be doing a heap of research to work out a better way for the student voice to be heard. How exactly does this “student representation” system currently work? Well, first you’ve got your WSU Board. They’re elected by the student body and do a whole lot of behind the scenes work. The WSU Board is independent to the university, but works closely with them to advocate for myriad student issues. Then, you’ve got the formal student representation system, which is coordinated by the

university itself. You’re probably familiar with class representatives, but the system actually goes a lot further than that. Currently, you’ve got student representatives on subject committees, faculty committees and even a few sitting on the Academic Board with VC Quiggles himself. These student representatives focus on academic issues specifically, and have the ability to influence important decisions. The University has made some changes already. We’re going to work with them to see how the system can be more efficient and how better support can be given to our student reps. We’re also looking at how we can better recognise the value of our student reps. We think our student reps play an important role, and a mere one-liner on a CV doesn’t quite reflect this. Why is student representation important? I thought class reps just told the lecturer to stop reading off the slides… The student representation system is incredibly important. We’ve all had classes that kinda suck, right? Shockingly, lecturers actually want you to enjoy their classes. Having a good class rep can really improve your academic experience. Sometimes lecturers aren’t aware that there’s a problem, and all it can take is a word with a class rep to make it a lot better. The same applies for academic issues at all levels – from course content and assessment structure to moodle usage and changes to degrees. These are issues that concern you as a student, and you should be able to have your voice heard. ♦ 07

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TL;LR

Too Long; Lyam Read “Astronomically inclined lad attempts to visit moon after being bullied by sister.” — 'My sister says I am an alien': 9-year-old boy applies for new Nasa job. Planetary protection officer job sparks a series of incredulous responses.

“Folk who aren’t on the bandwagon continue to oppress those who are.” — Not a Game of Thrones fan? Don't worry, you're not alone. Whingey stuff.co.nz journalist says it’s hard work sharing an office with Game of Thrones Fans, especially when you're not one.

“Australians continue to be terrified of liquid dwelling organisms.” — Did marine critters eat an Australian teen's legs? Sam’s wounds were still seeping blood on Sunday, 18 hours after he emerged from the water.

“Crippling pain of living on the East Coast reaches new peak.” — Rise in positive opiate tests in Bay of Plenty workplaces. January 1st to June 30th this year found 557 tests were positive for drugs.

“High velocity pups cause moderate dilemma.” — Dog collision turns woman's knee to cornflakes, niece says. Unlucky lady won't be able to walk for a year after two out-of-control dogs smashed into her on a central Auckland beach.

“Straya stoked to find stingrays weren’t the cause of their local icon being partly ingested.” — Flesh-eating bugs at Melbourne beach: What really ate Sam and why. Turns out it was just a bunch of sea fleas.

News in Numbers $6.5 billion

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is rumored to take place next year.

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man tax implemented in vegan Melbourne cafe

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TOP 10 Socialite Resorts to Posting a #Throwback after Being Deprived of Attention for Almost an Hour “I honestly thought everyone had forgotten about me” Sophie shares heartbreaking tale of how it felt not receiving constant validation from her peers. “Maintaining my highly contrived public image is of utmost importance”.

Last week the occasional friend/enemy of Nexus, retiring Emeritus professor Dov Bing, suggested to the Waikato Times that the University was becoming a fascist state. So after we looked up the word fascist we decided to list for you the top ten signs the Uni is starting to resemble North Korea. 10. Both North Korea and the WSU have ruthless evil dictators named Kim Jong. 9. The removal of religious, women’s, and labour studies. 8. The WSU runs an intensive military training camp in the case of an invasion from the liberal infidels of the south. 7. Waikato backwards is Otakiaw, we’re unsure what this means but if you say it fast and angrily it sounds kinda spooky.

Local Police Narrow down Suspect List of Recent Flat Burglaries to a “Huge C**t” “Our thorough investigation has led us to believe this hooligan is in fact not a valuable member of society”. Constable Chad speaks up about the devastating string of thefts within the student suburbs. “These delinquents should just go back to washing windscreens and selling joints to high school kids?”.

6. The reason for the Lake’s existence, smell and discolouration is to hide the bodies of political dissidents. 5. You can have sex on this campus but smoking a legal cigarette afterward breaks the law. 4. The WSU board is being forced to make clothes out of curtains like the world’s saddest Von Trapp children. 3. First they came for Jewish Emeritus Professors and Nexus did nothing. 2. The last person that took down a B at the Don poster was also put into a coma.

Horticultural Enthusiast Immediately Regrets Turning up to Class After Trialing New Vase

1. Senior leadership staff consider those who enjoy the simple pleasures of music and art to be peasants. ♦

“He went pale and clammy before whispering ‘I think I’m dying’, I got a sweet vid on my story from it”. Close friend of cannabis consumer describes the traumatic panic attack he witnessed in 2-hour psychology lecture. “Those cones went straight to his bones”. 09

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Sports — Hākinakina

Killing the Competition Cameron McRobie Drugs fuck your shit up, not the kind that can be associated with a feral night in Back Bar or a floaty spiritual experience at Splore either. The war on various substances extends its arms a bit further than your usual party pill – it’s unfortunately all too common for high performance athletes to shoot up with the intentions of unnaturally increasing their performance. There are five classes of banned drugs in sport, these all have typically different performance effects and thus there is no one-sizefits booster to ensure you win at whatever sport you’re trying to fuck up the legitimacy of. Stimulants; like caffeine, Ritalin, MDMA – this category encompasses any form of banned doping that usually acts on the central nervous system to modify mental function and behaviour. This increases an individual’s sense of excitement and decreases their sense of fatigue – at the expense of possible heart failure and addiction. Even though Benzedrine (amphetamine) was prevalent in sport following the 1936 Berlin Olympics, it’s more likely that a cheating cyclist or football player nowadays uses modafinil or a designer stimulant – aimed to sneak its way around the WADA (World AntiDoping Agency) regulations. Steroids and anabolics; very little needs to be explained about these. Athletes who play sport where they need to be bigger, stronger or more powerful will take them to aid training. The catch is that some varieties can cause a condition known scientifically as ‘bitch-tits’ in males and deeper voices/facial hair in women due to hormone imbalances. Diuretics; if you play a sport where you need to make weight because you’re a big boy ready to clean up the little boy category, then you should ingest this to remove all your disgusting fluids 10

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from your deceitful body. Alternately, it’s a good way to hide other drug use (or so I hear). Peptides and hormones; these are typically in the form of EPO (Erythropoietin) or HGH (Human growth hormone). EPO goes hand in hand with the likes of blood doping (injecting yourself with extra blood on race day so your cardiorespiratory system is more efficient) in the sense that it fucks with your red blood cells to give you more energy. This has risk of stroke and heart problems but eh – live fast (literally), die young – right?! HGH is pretty self-explanatory, it’s a hormone used to build muscle if you’re too mentally weak to do it properly, at the expense of abnormal growth, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, etc. Finally, narcotic analgesics; this masks pain caused by injury or fatigue (which can ultimately make your injury worse – idiot) and is incredibly addictive. Though it doesn’t necessarily fall under this category, an example with a similar effect is the use of marijuana or alcohol by freestyle snowsports athletes and similar disciplines. This is because these depressant drugs relax the body and mind in such a way that the user doesn’t evaluate risks of performing dangerous tricks or hitting massive air – and won’t stiffen up from nervousness at a crucial moment which would ruin their potential 10/10 score. Though I’m totally against athlete doping due to the destruction of a level playing field, killing sportsmanship and taking away any integrity from entire sports, I am all for a separate Olympic type games, where every athlete is as ‘roided up as he or she can possibly be. This way we can truly see who the best athlete is. Nah I’m fucking around, don’t do drugs kids. ♦

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Trust the Process Tom Collopy

↑ SAM HINKIE

↑ JJ REDICK

↑ M A R K E L L E F U LT Z

In 2013, the Philadelphia 76ers embarked on a journey that would see them be the laughing stock of the NBA for years to come. They appointed Sam Hinkie as their GM and with that he brought a process that would forgo short term gains to reap long term benefits. He would do this by gaining high draft picks over a number of years despite the team performing poorly, theorising that those players would either flourish or be used in trade deals, thus strengthening the team either way. Although Hinkie didn’t keep his job long enough to see his plan come to fruition, he is definitely receiving the deserved credit for the team’s current position. Last season started to see the long term benefits of the process, with Philly showing glimpses of being a quality team. They won 19 more games than they did the previous season, whilst still gaining the number one overall draft pick. This off-season, they have added the experience they needed to take this young team to the next level. JJ Redick signed a one year deal moving from the Clippers, which I think will be fantastic for the team. They needed a veteran guard to pair up with their #1 overall draft pick Markelle Fultz to ease the pressure off of him, especially in 4th quarter situations where experience and game management is key. They also signed big man Amir Johnson to a one year deal to bolster their frontcourt stocks. Amir is a gritty player who will do the hard yards and put up solid numbers in the process. Ben Simmons will make his NBA debut after missing the entirety of last season through injury and Joel Embiid will embark on completing his first full season as an NBA player since being drafted in

2014. Combining these elements with the rest of the young talent they have retained and Markelle Fultz, Philly look to be in a good position entering this season. The buzz around the team seems very confident, with many believing this is the year Philly can return to the playoffs. In a much weakened Eastern Conference, I don’t think that goal is too far-fetched. They have the ability to stretch the floor at every position and can provide scoring at each of those positions. They also have some very valuable guys that will be coming off the bench, many of whom have been starters in the NBA at one point or another. This means that their second unit will be very competitive and if a guy is having an off night, they have players who can step up and play additional minutes. They are a team that I think may struggle defensively but can more than make up for it on the other end of the floor. I really wouldn’t be surprised if come April we see Philly taking on the Cavs in the first round of the playoffs, but then again April is a long way off and anything can happen. ♦

Entertainment — Whakangahau

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ENTERTAINMENT Crush of the Week – Claudia Ibbotson Claudia Ibbotson started her Instagram account CloudSaysStuff when she started to get a lot of people sliding into her DMs needing advice. Her social media presence is like the supportive big sister most of us never had. The Wellingtonian told us the idea of posting public responses to these messages, keeping the sender anonymous, has helped her support people and share what she’s learnt and lived through. It has convinced her to pursue a career as a clinical psychologist, and maintain her blog-like posts to show people they’re not alone. Her posts covers topics like eating disorders, self-love, sexuality, and abuse. Always trust a gal with a great fringe.

SUBculture Guess the internet craze based on the below thumbnails! →→ Clue #1: became popular in South Korea in 2010 →→ Clue #2: it feels like it should be sexual but it’s not (?) →→ Clue #3: videos can be up to an hour long!

Hottest to Nottest →→ Nicola Smith, VicePresident of the WSU’s, Instagram vlogs @nicbehindthescenes →→ Lorde’s ‘Perfect Places’ music video →→ Reuseable coffee cups

@cloud.ibbotson @cloudsaysstuff

→→ The Spinoff’s ‘Kiwis of Snapchat’ videos →→ Asking for extra ketchup packets because you’re saucy →→ ASMR-pop →→ Ling and Zing are getting seriously stale →→ Who is eating chocolate-dipped bugs?? →→ There’s no POC on The Bachelor Australia →→ Comedians doing blackface

Answer: Mukbang

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Reviews — Arotakenga

Video Game

Arotakenga Whakaaturanga Ozark by Netflix Review: David Simes

Arotakenga Tākoro Ataata Darkest Dungeon by Red Hook Studios Review: Conor Maxwell

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Netflix is pretty damn consistent when it comes to making new shows. From Orange is the New Black to Sense8, Netflix has been making the shows we want to binge watch in a day, talk to your mates about and then cry for a year until the next series comes out so we can do it all over again. Ozark isn’t really one of those shows. It’s a shame really, it’s pretty much begging to be the next Breaking Bad. Jason Bateman, in a decent un-comedic role, plays Marty Byrde, a financial planner who suddenly relocates his family from the suburbs of Chicago to a resort community in the Missouri Ozarks. After a money laundering scheme goes wrong and he is in debt to a Mexican drug lord. I’ll give Ozark credit where credit’s due. It has a pretty decent plot, some nice character development and very good performances, namely Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, who plays Marty’s wife, and especially Peter Mullan, the drug lord. But the main problem I have with Ozark is that it is trying too hard to be what it is not. It really wants to prove that Bateman isn’t just that bloke from Arrested Development and that he can do ‘proper serious acting’. When I watched this show, it just seemed the creators ham-fisted all the winning tropes of Narcos and Breaking Bad and just thought “Fuck it, someone will watch it…”. All and all, it’s alright. If you’re watching Netflix to avoid doing assessments, this will do. If you’re looking for the next televisual masterpiece from Netflix, this is not it. ♦

Darkest Dungeon is a Lovecraftian nightmare designed only for masochists or people who are very, very lucky. In this 2D side-scrolling dungeon crawler, the player controls a party of four heroes (picked from 15 possible classes) who must descend into—as the title suggests—the darkest of dungeons, battling Eldritch horrors, illness and insanity. No two heroes are the same, and each is customisable; they can be renamed and personalised, and they each come with unique quirks and ailments, from fearless warriors of light, to cheats and alcoholics. Try not to get attached to your party, though. If they die, they’re gone forever, and you’ll have to train up a suitable replacement from scratch. What sounds like a great game in concept is let down by one infuriating mechanic: Random Number Generation. See, games like Hotline Miami and Dark Souls are difficult, but with determination and careful planning, they can eventually be overcome. In Darkest Dungeon, however, your success (or hideous failure) in battles is heavily luck-based, and the tables can turn against you at any moment with the roll of a computerised dice. One of the earliest achievements I earned in the game was a reward for experiencing my first full-party wipe, and it was about the time a siren mind-controlled my healer to assist in murdering the rest of my party that I decided I didn’t hate myself enough to keep playing. Be prepared to go from having a blast to cursing the Old Ones in seconds, if you want to subject yourself to this challenge. ♦

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The rise of vegan food is ever-expanding in today’s society and increasingly evident in our own backyard. Two Birds Eatery is a recently refurbished café in Hamilton East, catering for vegans and non-vegans alike. Smoothie options, such as the ‘Black Widow’ (a smoothie containing coconut charcoal) and ‘The Hulk’ (one for all you green lovers out there), satiate and satisfy every customer. Vegans don’t have to pay extra for requesting a plant milk based drink and the newly added Turmeric latte, a beverage made from turmeric, ginger, cinnamon and maple syrup, is my definite go to on a cold winter’s day. The sweet golden milk warms me from the inside out, although like all the items on the menu, it is quite pricey at $6 a cup. On the food side of things, Two Birds does have vegan options, but they are limited. The raw cabinet food, like the Raw Ferrero Rocher slice definitely delivers on taste, however when you look on the menu, only two main items can be made vegan, a disappointment for hungry vegans who need more than just kumara chips for lunch. And though a big bowl of creamy oats is always comforting, the price you pay is definitely excessive, when you can buy a bag of oats for less than $5. Considering the price of items there, it’s not a place I would visit on a weekly basis. That’s said, it’s nice to know there will always be cruelty-free food and drinks not far from uni. The friendly staff and cosy interior - indoor pot plants, open fireplace and wooden seating, lend itself to a great place for conversation. What’s more, the table flowers in the gherkin jar shows an inventive way to upcycle items otherwise destined for the dump. ♦

Our age of instant gratification gives us the freedom to hear sounds from anywhere. If we want to hear the music of Argentina, the Congo, or Tibet, it’s only a couple of clicks away—far better than letting label executives find it for us, selecting only the sounds which will be palatable (and marketable) to the Western consumer. This age of freedom opens us up to treats like Musas (vol. 1), the newest record from Mexican pop star Natalia Lafourcade. Her previous release Hasta la Raíz was a superb pop record by every measure, but Musas is entirely different. She pays tribute to the great traditions of Latin American folk, and it is one of the rare cases where a tribute album deserves to belong to the canon from which it draws. Musas (Muses) is a collection of original songs and covers: authentically folksy, but modern too. The quality of authenticity comes out of a collaboration with Los Macorinos, a veteran Mexican folk duo whose gentle strokes are a worthy complement to Lafourcade’s sweet song. Together they create undeniable enchantment. I don’t understand a word of Spanish, but that couldn’t take away from the numinous beauty of ‘Rocío de Todos los Campos’ or the simple joy of ‘Mi Tierra Veracruzana’. This is not the album that will convert you to Latin folk. You have to come to Musas predisposed to the sound. That’s the price you pay for authentic tradition. Lafourcade and her producers made no concessions to what Western listeners might like to hear. There are no token English language songs thrown in. It tries to be no more than true Mexican folk: and that’s where it finds perfection. ♦

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As we frequently do, Nexus magazine was on Tinder this week looking for love when we came across someone from Canterbury. The more we talked, the more we realised two things. We would never have sex with someone from Christchurch who votes for ACT; and the University of Canterbury has way more cool shit than we do. This started our investigative journalism brains ticking over and after doing seven and a half minutes research, we decided to skip the boring shit and write the first part of a two issue investigation into student culture. For part one, we are asking what was cool about uni back in the day and to do so we thought we would talk to former Contact FM Manager and local music evangelist Lauren Kerr-Bell and Former WSU Director, streaker-tackling chicken, and current robot-dancing TV Host from Short and Wide, Andrew “AJ” James.

The Wailing Bongo “The Bongo used to be packed with over 1000+ people regularly checking out touring bands like Supergroove, local UOW bands like Mobile Stud Unit or sometimes international touring bands. O-Weeks were just plain crazy and massive here. If you didn’t get your ticket in a day or two of release, well you just plain out of luck. It was a bit of endurance test, one to two weeks of the best international and national headlining bands playing nearly every night.”- Lauren. “It is easy to feel like “hey I’m studying for three plus years and then I’m outta here”, but it is the experiences you create and the experiences that help create you that matter so much and for that I really have to thank music, Contact and the Wailing Bongo for shaping a big part of who I am.”- Also Lauren.

The Hori 440 “Student culture was lame when I was back there so I wanted more events, more of everything ya know. The Hori 440 was probably the pinnacle event, we only did it once to really take the piss out of the Undie Five Hundy. It was an exact 440km trip around the center of the North Island. Every car had a theme which took the piss and each occupant of that car would also be in theme, we even had a police convoy and a radio station with us. You’d go through Tokoroa,

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Taupo, Rotorua and the Mount where you’d have awesome events at each one. It was awesome to get it off the ground, all it really takes is passion and one person to instil that passion into everyone else.”- AJ.

Hermit in the Park “This was started by some guys who lived on Bleakley Avenue, these guys ‘Alpha Delta Gamma’ had actually made a fraternity and started doing a thing called ‘the hermit’. This is where’d you go into separate rooms and had to drink a box of beers within the hour, you’d come out after and just party from there. It was a speed round but also endurance, sometimes people wouldn’t make it out so you’d go check on them after their hour and they’d either be conked out or some guys hurling in the corner of his room. It’s like survival of the fittest and the fastest really. What we eventually did was a Hermit in the Park, you’d get refrigerator or washing machine boxes so you’re isolated in a very small confined space, and set up much like stonehenge with all the boxes in a big circle. One guy would nominate himself as the ref to timekeep and enforce punishment if anyone tried to leave their box. At first you’d just get tackled if you tried to leave but we did this seven or eight times so by the end of it all if you even poked a finger out you’d get shot with a bunch of fireworks as punishment. I ran it for four years and chucked a theme on it each time, we had a fluoro one where 60 people in boxes came down with their own spray cans to design their box, ended up pretty bloody cool. Every time it ended up in absolute chaos cause everyone goes in sober and rolls out pissed. The Hermit in the Park was something special.”- Andrew James.

Scrumpy Hands “Now that was a biggie, it was an annual event every year so for the five years that I was there Scrumpy Hands in O-Week was one of the big days at a house party. Each year it would change flat and you’d easily have upwards of 100 people doing Scrumpy Hands at one point in time, it was just next level.”- Andrew (big dog) Jameso.

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Toga March “In my last years of uni, I started up the toga march where we’d march from the Cameron Road flat right the way through, the first time we’d have about 100 people and the second time well over 200. You can imagine all these people walking to town with a few brews on hand and only wearing a sheet and undies, apart from the menaces who went commando. We liked to call ourselves the Warfies, like you know you have Scarfies ya know you’re alright you’ve just got heaps of people and you’re burning couches but we’re doing drinking better. Us Waikato Scarfies, yeah we went pretty good. It was a pretty cool few years that we were at uni.”- The humblest skux AJ.

Carnage Column “For a few years there I ran a carnage column in Nexus which was just party reviews, I’d made people want to have huge parties and ya know I’d be pretty honest in my reviews to put the heat on. Each week the party would attempt to be bigger and crazier than the last, Carnage ended up fuelling some huge nights.”- Once again it’s prince AJ.

Where from here? Now that you’ve had some background on the Waikato glory days we’ll come back after the break with a Part II where we tell you how to get a free gym memberships, free dental care and the ability to get slightly loose on $5 beers while listening to non-shit local bands. SPOILERS: it involves more money, greater freedom for university clubs and bringing The Outback and 101 onto campus. ♦

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Kylie Price Recently, our South Island correspondent Jean Balchin was fortunate enough to meet and interview Kylie Price, a singer and songwriter from Dunedin. Jean talked to Kylie about the honesty of her music, and why she’d like to open for Ed Sheeran’s Dunedin concerts next March.

When did you start writing songs and singing? When I was 7, my mum caught me singing to myself with my sister’s two string ukelele in my dad’s glasshouse next to the tomatoes. She asked me if I’d like to play the guitar, and then singing just came from that.

university. Both Maddy Parkins-Craig and Graham Downs taught me songwriting, and John Eginiss and Ian Chapman were also very influential. I know how to write a song, but I do what’s best for that song. Every song is different — a whole new world. If I cloned the way I wrote each song, it wouldn’t work.

How did you create the campaign to open for Ed? I was having a few beers and was joking around that it’d be really cool to open for Ed Sheeran. How awesome would it be? I started this hashtag, #KPforED, not thinking that people would catch onto it. I just wanted a couple of people to like it on my music page, and then it went the way it has! Now I’m on the radio and in papers and people are getting my initials and the hashtag tattooed on them. I’m just going with it. I figure the more noise I make, maybe they’ll wonder what all this fuss is about and ask who’s this girl?

What does music mean to you? My last EP was a mixture of things or ideas I’d have, people I’d fallen out with, or love. This next EP is about love, again, but a more powerful and mature love, and also the idea of self growth and self discovery and recovery. I have stories to tell. I see it as my way of being able to give back to the world.

Why do you think honesty is so important in songwriting? It’s probably one of the hardest things to do, for me. By writing honestly, I feel like it’s more relatable. I will not be the only one in this universe facing these problems. If someone can hear me singing about this, maybe they can relate to this and not feel so alone. I think it’s important to be honest because it keeps you honest and aware of what’s important.

What’s next? I’m going to tour the upcoming EP. I’ll carry on singing and writing and I’d quite like to try overseas, like Brooke Fraser did with her Albertine tour. I’m a huge Brooke Fraser fan. She’s awesome and she doesn’t throw her religion in your face. And Lorde was famous in America before she was famous over here. And I’m young. Why shouldn’t I travel and sing? I don’t need fame. As long as I can travel and sing and pay my way by doing music, I’d be totally happy. You can help out with Kylie’s campaign by sharing the hashtag #KPforEd on social media. Let’s get this star to the Ed Sheeran shows! ♦

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Puppet Master Politics Paula Bennett A lot has been made about a certain relentlessly positive woman, whose rapid rise to power took everyone by surprise. Of course we mean current Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett, a woman whose life is the model for our own VicePresident Nicola Smith. Unfortunately being in charge of a country means she can’t drop everything to come and drink with a 3rd year bio student. She did however do an interview via email after Lyam spent most of the day hitting on her secretary over the phone. Why should students vote? “Everyone should vote! If you want to have fair representation in parliament then you should look at all of the party’s policies and decide who represents you best and get to the polls. Think about the future of this country, our place in the world and then get out and vote”. Righty tighty, just the same old. In summary: vote or you’re a terrible person. What got you into politics? “I got into politics because I want to fight for the rights of other people and I have the life experience to achieve things”. Good ol’ Paula got moderately pregnant when she was 17, decided to head to uni in her 20s and ended up campaigning for a campus crèche which led to the discovery of her political voice. Nowadays she’s Deputy Prime Minister with a fully grown child. Who’s to thank for all of this? Apparently the National Party. What got you into politics? →→ $503 million to put more 1125 more Police Staff on the street. →→ $267 million for commuter rail. →→ Lifting superannuation age to 67 in 2040. Yap just a whole lot about money really. More police is kinda cool and I’m sure commuter rail

would be splendid when it was actually completed, who knows how long that would take though. If we’re constantly dealing with all these fucking roadworks can’t we just focus on getting that sorted first? Apparently there’s a bunch more policies to come though, all of which being periodically released over the course of the campaign. How ‘bout climate change? “As Climate Change Minister, I’ve been involved in New Zealand setting ambitious targets to reduce our emissions through the 2030 Paris Agreement Target”. How good. Under the leadership of Momma Paula, National has committed to a series of freshwater improvement projects. Using Government grants of up to $44 million to do a whole lotta good for over 100 rivers and lakes. It’s fine giving us the figures but what’s the actual plan to fix our waterways? Is Hamilton really as bad as everyone makes it out to be? “Not at all. My family are from Hamilton – my parents met there after high school many years ago. I still have family there – there’s a bit of Waikato in me”. Today Lyam Learnt: →→ Women can’t get moderately pregnant. →→ National HAS a climate change policy. →→ Our Deputy PM wants more cops and for current students to work till they are closer to death. The Last Word I really couldn’t tell you if I’d vote for National or not, their incessant need to flex big figures at everything is fairly boring though. Let’s just say Paula seems lovely but her secretary was the real queen of the evening. ♦

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M A R R I O T Tell us about your upcoming solo show at David Lloyd Gallery. Well, this’ll be my first solo exhibition since receiving my visual arts degree from Unitec, so the whole thing is quite exciting. The show’s called Bare Lines, and will feature my latest nude charcoal line drawings. Laree Payne is curating the show. At the moment she’s setting up a pop up gallery called Weasel that’s opening in September. The name ‘Bare Lines’ captures both your art’s subject matter and your minimalist illustration style - how did you develop this style? I decided to concentrate on the figure early on in my degree. I’d been struggling to portray hands and feet in my work for my degree, and I was annoyed about how often they let pieces down. So, to get a better understanding of how to render them, I spent a lot of time looking at figurative art. What started as a mild interest turned into a fascination with the figure in art. I wanted to explore the subject in depth and develop my own style of representation. I liked artists who portrayed the figure with outlined contours, like Egon Schiele and Alice Neel, because their work had a clear representation of the shapes of the body that was easy to understand. I think my style is also influenced by the initial struggle itself. I’m still striving to improve, and I still treat my work as a study. I think that becomes a part of my work’s aesthetic. The idea to use sleeping nudes as subjects came more recently, while going to life drawing evenings in Raglan. Near the end of the session, when the models were tired and had to hold their poses longer, they’d often find a super comfy position and fall half asleep. There was something so sincere and unguarded about that, and I developed a real fondness for sleeping poses. I think the model’s comfort rubs off on the viewer, and I thought that was an interesting notion to explore. 26

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Who are your influences at the moment? Egon Schiele is the biggest and most obvious influence. Probably less noticeable is the influence of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. I think my current style might be influenced by my early study of Rembrandt as well.

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How did you begin creating art? I’d always wanted to do something creative but I wasn’t quite sure what. Then, when I was in my last year of high school preparing for my final assessments, I had to work non-stop for two weeks. I was working around 15 hours each day, and it hit me that this was something I could really see myself doing. Who’s someone you’d love to do a portrait of, living or dead? Egon Schiele for sure. My style is very much in response to appreciating his work, so it seems fit. Plus, his strange sense of movement would make for an interesting image. If we send nudes, will you draw us? Or do you draw exclusively using live models as references? Haha. Depends on the nudes. Or how much you’re paying. But it’s funny you should mention that, because I’ve toyed with the idea of asking the Reddit community to do just that—send nudes for me to draw. I think I’d probably receive a few pretty grotty images but I am (hesitantly) open to the idea. Where to from here? Once Bare Lines finishes, I’ll start making new work for my next show at The Framing Workshop on December 1st, and then more for the Raglan Arts Weekend at the end of January. Being an artist certainly isn’t a bludge job, there’s always work to be done. ♦

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Have an event you want featured? Flick an email to editor@nexusmag.co.nz with details of the event and we’ll get in touch. TEDxRuakura 2017: Beyond Sunday, 20th August, UoW, 10am5pm, Coordinates: -37.786492, 175.31495870000003

Emo Night with False Start & Fire For Glory Friday 15th September, 7.30pm4am, Ding Dong Lounge, AKL

You’ve probably spent a fair percentage of your life binge watching TED talks in order to find academic validation, why not pop on down to the Gallagher and get involved in the real deal? Tickets are a tad spenny at around $100 a pop but if this is your idea of fun then I guess it’s worth it.

How fucking good. We’re throwing right back to the early 00s and remembering just how good it felt to truly hate our parents. Get your skux cut freshened up and pop on up to the big smoke for a night you’ll never forget. Upstairs will feature a couple of bands but the downstairs DJ set is where the real rave will be. Their glorious playlist will include the likes of: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get Up Kids, Paramore, All Time Low, Escape The Fate, The All-American Rejects, BRING ME THE HORIZON, Senses Fail, Weezer, Death Cab for Cutie and whole lot more. It’s free entry downstairs and otherwise $15 at the door.

UoW Scholarships Information Session Thursday 17th August, 1-2pm, S.1.02 Do you dream of having a sugar daddy to pay for your tertiary tuition but find yourself unable to stoop that low? Well pop down on down to S block this Thursday for the next best thing. Our glorious University have won millions of dollars of funding that they’re willing to throw at ya. At 1-1.30 the UNZ staff will be giving an overview with a Q&A thrown in at the end, from 1.30-2 the UoW Scholarships Advisors will be providing follow-up details. If you’re feeling like this brief description isn’t enough just flick an email to the UoW Scholarships team, scholarships@waikato.ac.nz

Pecha Kucha Vol 29 Tuesday 15th August, 7.30pm10pm, The Atrium, Wintec “Our biggest show ever of random and magical presentations by creatives, local celebrities and your next door neighbour.” The Atrium is popping out an art show held in conjunction with Spark International Festival of Music, Media, Arts and Design. Rumours are that it’s fairly exciting so if that’s a bit of you then roll on over, it’s either $15 Door sales or $10 with student ID.

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Jacqui Swney With the rise in the quality of Top 50 songs these days, it took all of my energy not to put Selena Gomez or Dua Lipa on this week’s playlist, but let’s be honest we’ll all shamelessly listen to them anyway because I’m loving a bit of Fetish at the moment. But this playlist is about bestowing glory to the little guys, the cats in a world of dog lovers, the salt n’ vinegar at a ready salted picnic. Time to branch out, my fine friends. Scum Fuck, Flower Boy by Tyler, the Creator No, humble readers, this is not a song. This is Tyler, the Creator’s latest album. There are far too many works of magic for me to mention just one, so instead I’ll just sum up the entire album for ya. This album is the perfect combination of sentimental and hyped. Songs like ‘November’, ‘Glitter’ and ‘Boredom’ keep things chill and somewhat existential. But just when you get comfortable in the pace of these songs, Tyler manages to jolt you out of the slow, cruisey vibes that had you thinking maybe he learned how to chill the fuck out. He mixes in some classic Tyler the Creator, high energy bangers like ‘I Ain’t Got Time!’ and ‘Who Dat Boy’. It’s definitely a must listen, and it shows a side of Tyler the Creator that I had yet to experience. Shut Up Kiss Me by Angel Olsen To be entirely honest, I think I was browsing the old Spotify on another level of lonely drunkenness in my room when I heard this song, because it magically appeared on a playlist with no recollection on my part of how it got there or what this song even sounded like. But after 30

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a hot second of confusion, my rational self had a cheeky listen and then gave thanks to my drunken self because it’s the kind of song that makes you wanna jump on your bed in your underwear like in a cliche 90s chick flick. Olsen reminds me of a happier, female version of King Krule with her rough guitar riffs and husky vocals. All in all, she give us everything we could hope for in a female indie musician, with just the right angsty to sappy ratio. 8/10. ↑ T Y L E R , T H E C R E AT O R

Feel It Still- Lido Remix by Portugal. The Man, Lido I’ve written about this song already, but after hearing this remix I’m a changed woman. Lido slows this song down in the beginning and if it doesn’t make you feel like doing dirty things to someone you shouldn’t, there’s no way we’re ever going to agree on anything. It’s a much simpler and more sensual version of an already great song. A prime example of how a remix should be done. It doesn’t defile the original in any way, but by stripping it back and giving us the bare minimum, everything becomes more enhanced and smaller things become more important. As far as remixes go, this one’s a keeper. 9/10. ♦

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Opinionated Corporal Punishment Jean Balchin When the “anti-smacking bill” was enforced in 2007, my father ranted and raved for days about the Government’s interference into private family matters. NZ First took out a whole-page spread in the NZ Herald to criticise the new law, and Dad pinned it up on the fridge, amongst magnets, holiday polaroids and grocery lists. As a child, I was ‘’educated’’ under a horrifically sexist, homophobic and ineffective homeschooling programme called Accelerated Christian Education (ACE). ACE upholds the belief that the Bible is literally true, and that there should be no distinction between church and state. According to ACE, “the nurture and admiration of the Lord requires biblical discipline.” ACE even published instructional guides on how to properly spank a student with a paddle (known colloquially in some schools as the “Board of Education”). Now, let me introduce you to Drury Christian School, an ACE homeschool co-operative, based in Auckland. Corporal punishment in NZ schools was abolished in 1987, and legislatively enforced in July 1990. Section 139A prohibits anyone employed by a school or ECE provider, or anyone supervising or controlling students on the school’s behalf, from “using force by way of correction or punishment towards any student at or in relation to the school or the student under their supervision or control.” However, the law had a loophole: parents, provided they were not school staff, could still discipline their children on school grounds. In early 2007, it was revealed that Drury was sneakily using this loophole to discipline students by

corporal punishment, by making the student’s parents administer the punishment. The Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007 effectively closed this loophole in May 2007, by enacting a blanket ban on parents administering corporal punishment on their children. People seemed to forget about Drury Christian School, and no legal challenge was instigated. However, Drury Christian School’s prospectus from July 2009 reveals that the school continued to encourage child abuse. In a section ominously titled “GUIDELINES FOR CORPORAL CORRECTION”, one may read how “corporal correction” should be considered for “repeated bad behaviour.” What follows is truly horrendous; a step-by-step guide to smacking children, with “a thin paddle is best on the bottom or the hand.” This prospectus stayed online until at least December 2015. In 2016, Drury Christian School updated its website. My parents certainly did not spare the rod with me, and I believe the regular “spankings”, which sometimes escalated into something more, damaged me irreparably. I hate to admit it, but I have a nasty, violent streak in me at times. I often shy away from physical contact, instinctively expecting something worse. Those who think it corporal punishment is appropriate should be aware that spanking frequently turns into more serious abuse. In my opinion, violence against children cannot be justified. To quote Plutarch “children ought to be led to honourable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows or ill-treatment.” ♦ 31

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The Fashion Critic Post-Dandyism Amanda van der Klompf Merriam-Webster defines dandy - a word first used circa 1780 - as “a man who gives exaggerated attention to personal appearance.” Through the span of recent centuries sit microscopic pockets of dandyism; Oscar Wilde being first point of call for literature and theatre enthusiasts. For the musically inclined, perhaps Bowie is the best example. Then there’s Lord Byron, the dancers on Soul Train, Fred Astaire (all this ordering being nonsequential, of course)... What unified all of these men was a wink-wink-nudge-nudge attitude toward masculinity in menswear. It was an androgynous charm, a devotion to dressing up. Fashion is now experiencing Dandy 2.0; and who is at the movement’s forefront? Surprisingly, Young Thug. Since gaining critical acclaim for his hip-hop nouveau in 2014, unexpected menswear icon Jeffrey Lamar Williams (Thugga) has been spotted modelling for Yeezy, smouldering in Calvin Klein campaigns, and even wearing a ruffled blue silk gown on the cover of his No My Name Is Jeffery EP. The particular attention he pays to dressing himself, with (it seems) very little acknowledgement of or interest in the hypermasculine industry he creates music in, is immaculate. On the cover of Dazed, Thugga sported a patent clear PVC singlet, brandished with the words “WARNING: EXPLICIT BEAUTY” (designed by Belgian O.G. Walter van Beirendonck). He’s even dabbled in design, presenting a collection at the VFILES Spring 2017 show in New York. British designer JW Anderson, who probably inhales more nicotine than oxygen these days, is at the creative helm of both his own brand, 32

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and Spanish label Loewe. Both do menswear. Think bulky pleated silk trousers, bunched up knitwear, wedge-heeled loafers, ruffles, bows and paillettes. For Anderson, a lot of his work explores the idea of a young boy dressing up (most likely in his mother’s clothing). This is easily spotted in the seasonal Loewe menswear lookbooks, usually starring a pair of Peter Panlike models teetering in exuberant getups. The final component of this movement is a rather unexpected pairing of Dandy and skater. This fresh take on Dandyism is the most unique to 2017, although it’s been in the works for a few years. Frank Ocean and his crew have inspired a trend in skaters across the globe, many being free-loving, pastel-haired youths who lament over the fact that they were born after Trainspotting came out. Venture out into Auckland’s Silo Park and you might spot the blur of a baby pink t-shirt skating by, or rust brown corduroy flares, or a speckled lilac turtleneck. They’re in Hamilton too - you might catch a skater-dandy hybrid sauntering out of Recycle Boutique if you time it right. Or maybe there are a couple working at the café formerly known as Grey Gardens. It’s always a bit difficult to tell if we’re seeing the end of gender in fashion, but the importance of masculinity seems to be on its way out for many of today’s dandies. In fact, for some, it’s already extinct. ♦

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Lonely Tarts Club Toxic Masculinity Jennie-Louise Kendrick The saying “nice guys finish last” is a sentiment that doesn’t sit with me well. It implies that there is a race, some kind of battle between the “nice guy” and his arch nemesis, the presumed “bad guy”. Romance isn’t a race - if it were, premature ejaculation would be lauded. Toxic masculinity is not only the concept Britney was going for in her iconic 2003 music video, but a concept that affirms how the patriarchy is harmful for men. It is pervasive throughout society and alienates men who present as anything other than the macho, sexually aggressive, unemotional, violent manly man that women simply *swoon* over. The millennial version of this would be the “lad” or the “fuckboy” (alternative spelling: fuckboi, fuccboii, Simon): the guy that calls everyone else a “pussy”, as if being a cat or an inaccurate name for the female genitalia is a huge insult. Toxic masculinity excludes the acceptance of healthy male friendships not based on the acquisition of bed notches, of male* abuse victims and the LGBT+ community. As soon as a man* explicitly describes himself as a “nice guy”, I’ve clocked out. It seems disingenuous to have to affirm your “niceness”, your actions should already prove it. In fact, being “nice” is disingenuous in itself - there’s a difference between treating your fellow human with kindness and compassion, but there’s no need to carry on with the sugarcoating, artificial happiness and ulterior motives wrapped up in the “nice” bundle. Anyone can be nice and presenting this kind of front to the woman* you’re trying to cosy up to isn’t gonna work. You shouldn’t feel pressure

to present an altered image of yourself in order to see appealing to the human you’re hankering after. It’s inauthentic and harmful, being honest is the best route in life. Appearing as your paramour’s friend is just deceptive - if they don’t see you as a romantic potential, they never will. This concept perpetuates that if you’re nice to a woman* that she owes you. It diminishes the feminist movement and gender equality, while forcing men to enact ancient platitudes and niceties in order to get a slice. The internet has also perpetuated a lot of chauvinistic behaviour when “nice guys” are defied. There is no woman* on the internet that has not had unwanted advances from a man and then when denied, the dude will flip out and start berating them with insults. It’s absolutely horrible and can even go as far to threaten to rape and/or kill the woman*. This kind of behaviour should absolutely be taken seriously, just as this kind of behaviour from a woman* towards a man* should be treated with gravitas. No woman* wants someone to tell her to smile, and the act of opening a door for someone should just be an act of consideration, rather than chivalry. If you go as far to insult a person specifically because they don’t accept your sexual advances, then you’re clearly not emotionally ready or stable to be in a relationship, sexual or not. There’s no race, and the only distinction between yourself and another human being should be on the authenticity of your actions - not a stereotype that makes you feel better about your own masculinity. Tip your fedoras to everyone, not just the ladies. ♦ 33

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Yam and Troy the Science Boys Distilling Denatured Alcohol Troy the Science Boy Are you a seasoned student alcoholic? Do you enjoy sinking a few cold ones with the boys/gals? Is the current regime just not providing you with enough money to hit the piss to a satisfactory level? Don’t fret my children, because now, there’s an easier way! You may have noticed that gnarly looking bottle of purple fluid at the supermarket or dairy. Typically it’s labelled ‘Methylated Spirits’ and is otherwise known as denatured alcohol. This stuff is mostly industrial grade ethanol and man oh man will it fuck you up. Hold on, let’s pump the brakes for a moment. Are Yam and Troy, the Science Boys suggesting I drink meths for a cheap means of getting maggot? Doesn’t that shit have poison in it to stop me drinking it? Why, yes it does loyal reader, but that is not what we are suggesting. A wee bit of science will purify that purple gross shit into beautiful, pure, ethanol. Those of you who have taken chemistry at any level, will know about or have heard of distillation. It’s a process that uses temperature gradients to separate liquid mixtures into their components. If you’ve ever driven past a refinery or chemical plant and seen massive fuck off towers, there’s a good chance they were industrial distillation columns to do exactly that. They’re complicated as shit to design and very expensive to manufacture, but that’s not what we’ll be cracking the yarns on today. A basic distillation setup consists of a heat source, a volumetric flask or graduated cylinder, a condensation setup and a receiving container. 34

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If you weigh out a set volume of denatured alcohol into the flask and begin applying gentle heat, the process has begun. A thermometer and condensation tube should be attached to your volumetric flask and heat applied to the flask. You will begin to notice the temperature rise as the fluid begins to increase in temperature. Once the ethanol begins to reach boiling temperature, the temperature reading on your thermometer should plateau. This will likely happen around the 78°C. You’ll notice that the fluid is beginning to give off vapour which will then pass into your condensation tube and begin to condense and flow into your receiving container. This container can be anything but it’s advised to use some sort of beaker so you can calculate your ethanol yield (if you’re that way inclined). If at any point the temperature goes above 78°C, shut that shit down immediately, you’re now distilling poison. There you have it boys and girls, a litre of methylated spirits will set you back less than ten dollars and with a few tweaks, you can turn that bad boy into a palatable beverage with a massive kick. I think it’s worth mentioning, don’t do this, are you fucking defective in the head? Go and buy a box or a bottle of wine or spirits like a normal functioning alcoholic you dumb fuck. See you on the next one. ♦

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Auteur House ↑ M I T C H U M I N Y O U N G B I L LY YOUNG (1969)

↑ T H E S TO RY O F G . I . J O E (1945)

Robert Mitchum Richard Swainson August 6th marks the centenary of Robert Mitchum’s birth. Laconic tough guy, lazy rebel, prototypical stoner, Mitchum is a golden age star whose style still seems contemporary. Muscular and handsome in youth, he aged well, sustained by a beautifully modulated voice and understated delivery that held up as well in 1940s film noir as 1980s television mini-series. He could play gangsters, cowboys and soldiers but was also capable of light comedy, romance and even melodrama. Mitchum became a star in The Story of G. I. Joe (1945), a film that, much like Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, attempts to give an everyman perspective on combat. Made as the war in Europe was coming to an end, propaganda took a backseat to drama. Mitchum plays an officer, one unusually close to his men, a character whose climactic death is felt all the more because it occurs off screen. In a different era a conviction for marijuana use and a stint in jail would have meant disgrace and exile. For Mitchum, in 1948, it enhanced the image, giving his roles in such noir classic as Out of the Past (1947) and The Big Steal (1949) added gravitas. Aficionados of the genre rank the former as its finest expression but it is rivalled in the Mitchum oeuvre by the brilliant The Night of the Hunter (1955), a film far more psychologically nuanced, the actor playing a misogynistic, psychopathic serial killer who is, at heart, a coward. Another of Mitchum’s celebrated villains is Max Cady in the original Cape Fear (1962). Physically powerful, morally corrupt, unambiguously sexual,

Cady is the perfect foil for Gregory Peck’s typically upright lawyer. Mitchum is just as good in Martin Scorsese’s remake, nearly twenty years later, easily holding his own with the likes of Robert De Niro. A softer side of the star is seen in the long but fascinating melodrama Home from the Hill (1960), in which he plays a flawed patriarch struggling to reconcile with his family. Also noteworthy, a decade later, are the sympathetic shadings he brings to the comparatively negative role of the cuckolded preacher husband in David Lean’s Irish melodrama Ryan’s Daughter (1970). Mitchum’s last part of substance came in Jim Jarmusch’s art house western, the prophetically titled Dead Man (1995). Almost ghost like, his voice reduced to a whisper, his scenes with Johnny Depp are appropriately melancholic, a mythic, postmodern fusion of old and new Hollywood. ♦

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Brought to you by House on Hood Street. Each week Nexus attempts to make a romantic/sexual connection. If you're keen for a date on us, email editor@nexusmag.co.nz He’s a sexual deviant who stops at nothing to please his lover, she’s an award winning academic with an insatiable thirst for spicy gingers. Will this unorthodox pairing result in some pre marital hanky panky? Or are we about to continue the blind date dry spell? She said: Well well well. Wasn’t that just a bloody fun night. I strolled on in after having a few for some liquid courage, even praying for a ginger. This hope soon turned to disappointment after I did not see the familiar ginger glow but I thought fuck it, and gave him a chance. He could soon clearly tell I was in over my own head, this may have given him false hope. The flow of chat and banter was excellent. Not going to lie, have never been in a situation like this and was literally thinking the worse and that Nexus would stitch me up. He immediately proved to be such a great guy and I’m surprised he put up with my bubbly self the whole night. However, he could not keep up with my antics the whole night, who knew a young lad from Bryant hall couldn’t play ball? Oh wait, it’s Bryant hall... but overall, had a wicked night out and hope he did too! Thanks Nexus. xoxo

He said: The nerves were sky high while I readjusted my bow tie to make sure I looked like an absolute virgin and half of a warm raspberry cruiser did not help create any liquid courage. I arrived 10 minutes early which gave me enough time to sink a beer. I watched many girls walk in thinking please don’t be her and finally she arrived. I was very pleased to see firstly, she wasn’t old and weird and secondly, she was quite a looker. Her friends were even kind enough to stay and sit outside just in case things turned south and my Dad was on speed dial with a fake emergency for the same reason. We started talking and it was going well, she had great chat and when she said her main hobby was drinking I knew she was a keeper. We shared stories and quickly drank through our $100 bar tab and as the alcohol consumed me the chat became much easier. Sadly my slightly intoxicated ass didn’t build up the courage to make a move and keep the night going so there’s one regret. Snapchat’s exchanged and goodbyes said it was fair to say I had a great night and she was a lovely cherry popper of blind dates. Always keen for a second if you are ;)

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Puzzles — Panga

HOROSCOPES Aries: March 21 — April 19 Delve deep into your inner workings and get risque with fashion choices, there ain’t nothing wrong with tie dye. Taurus: April 20 — May 20 This week highlights personal reflection and realisation, after uni you’ll either be homeless of successful. There’s no middle ground. Gemini: May 21 — June 20 Wednesday brings cravings for the nurturing embrace of an older lover, temporary compensation for the lack affection in your youth. Cancer: June 21 — July 22 The waning gibbous brings clarity to your central nervous system, you should feel in complete control of your earth bound vessel. Leo: July 21 — August 22 With the coming of spring brings a refreshing perspective on personal development, stay alert as you develop a new phobia. Virgo: August 23 — September 22 Embrace your nostalgic tendencies, your mind may be finite though assure you’ll never forget all the times you were socially inept.

THEME: Places you wouldn’t expect to find Harry Styles having lunch with your dad’s divorce lawyer.

Libra: September 23 — October 22 Your wispy mind desperately needs grounding. Brave the brisk chills of the tarmac and hit the journey to class barefoot.

Cannes

Bongos

Stonehenge

Waihi Beach

Brussels

Eden Park

Disneyland

Piha

Roller rink

Scorpio: October 23 — November 21 Take full advantage of your youth and commit multiple accounts of financial fraud, what’s the worst that can happen?

Jurassic Park

Ontario

Aleppo

The Moon

Church

Fiordland

Sagittarius: November 22 — December 21 Exploration is healthy escapism, embrace your innocence and admit how often you’re captivated your own cavities. Capricorn: December 22 — January 19 The ever nearing period of examination completely diminishes your self control, it’s perfectly fine to treat yourself at all times. Aquarius: January 20 — February 18 The hustle and bustle of Hamilton leaves you with a distaste for coitus, you require strict commitment not a lil bitta everyone. Pisces: February 19 — March 20 Male ponytails are a sign of emotional dominance. Your professional development requires a silky mane, either grow one or befriend one.

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SIMPLE PUZZLES 4 SIMPLE PEOPLE

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Puzzles â€” Panga

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5 4

5 6

3 6

4 9

3 9

Easy

3 4

4 1

4 8

6 7

Medium

8 2

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6 9

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Across 1. Plaid (6) 4. Inveigle (6) 9. Plane figure with straight sides (7) 10. Publish (5) 11. Creep (5) 12. Plant with prickly-edged leaves (7) 13. Schedule (6) 15. Despot (6) 18. Producing a sensation of touch (7) 20. Investigation (5) 22. Performed (5) 23. Gathered together in large numbers (7) 24. Objective (6) 25. Formal proposal to buy (6)

Down 1. Subject (5) 2. Let go (7) 3. Investor in theatrical production (5) 5. Nimbleness (7) 6. Beginning or early stages (5) 7. Best environment for a plant or animal (7) 8. Become one (5) 13. Draw in (7) 14. Diminish (7) 16. Kept away from (7) 17. Impart skills or knowledge (5) 19. Supply food ready to eat (5) 20. Provide evidence for (5) 21. Type of duck (5)

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